Harmonia | By Sarah Huebsch Schilling - June 5, 2023
We’re sounding the trumpet this week on Harmonia, with magnificent baroque trumpets in virtuosic solo music and majestic choral and orchestral works from Monteverdi to Telemann. Our featured release is Altissima: Works for High Baroque Trumpet with soloist Josh Cohen.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - June 4, 2023
Bronislava Volkova reads "Dog" and "Farewell to My Sweet Kushi" from her 2023 book Where Everyone Leaves Never to Return.
Afterglow | By Mark Chilla - June 2, 2023
We pay tribute to the late singer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte, who passed away this year at age 96. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso, jazz, blues and more.
PorchLight | By LuAnn Johnson - June 2, 2023
Probably the greatest rock band in name only ever.
Inner States | By Alex Chambers - June 2, 2023
Historian Emiliano Aguilar on Latinx politics in East Chicago, how political representation isn’t necessarily a panacea for historic discrimination, and why we should keep paying attention to local politics. Plus, a guilty pleasure.
Journey Indiana | By Alex Chambers - May 31, 2023
A birding festival, a Hoosier abstractionist, and Wabash aglow.
Arts & Culture | By Avraham Forrest - May 31, 2023
The festival features acts like Kyle Kinane and Melissa Villaseñor, as well as local comedians.
Night Lights | By David Johnson - May 31, 2023
In the last decade of his life Art Blakey continued to mentor new talent in his Jazz Messengers group, helping to elevate musicians such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and Mulgrew Miller.
Ether Game | By Chris Burrus - May 30, 2023
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Harmonia | By Wendy Gillespie - May 29, 2023
We’re celebrating the Cleveland baroque orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, which enters its thirtieth season in 2022. We’ll follow their journey from baroque standards like the Monteverdi Vespers and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, forward to Mozart, sideways to traditional American and British music, and backwards to Celtic chant and cantigas.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - May 28, 2023
Lisa Kwong reads "An AppalAsian Finds Home in Bloomington, Indiana" and "Searching for Wonton Soup."
Afterglow | By Mark Chilla - May 26, 2023
We’ll continue highlighting the work of the “Rat Pack” this week, with a focus on “Mr. Wonderful” himself, Sammy Davis Jr. We’ll chronicle his recording career and explore why he got the nickname “Mister Show Business.”
Inner States | By Alex Chambers - May 26, 2023
This week, Jack Lindner on why we should watch old movies on film, and Alicia Kozma on how to approach movies that have outdated attitudes about social issues.
Night Lights | By David Johnson - May 24, 2023
In the summer of 1961 pianist Bill Evans hit a new creative peak with his trio. Then the trio's gifted bassist, Scott LaFaro, died in a car wreck. What happened next?
Journey Indiana | By David Johnson - May 24, 2023
A Ukrainian art form, a lively bike race, and a unique 1950's style home.
Ether Game | By Chris Burrus - May 23, 2023
Our staff is off this week so we will not be taking submissions tonight. Please play along from home!
Harmonia | By Angela Mariani - May 22, 2023
It’s episode number one thousand . . . and we’re celebrating by going medieval, or mostly anyway, podcast-style, with my guest David McCormick, the executive director of Early Music America and member of the medieval ensemble Alkemie, who’ve also created the music for the video game Pentiment.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - May 21, 2023
Michael Luis Dauro reads selections from the "Woman With No Name."
Afterglow | By Mark Chilla - May 19, 2023
This week and next, we’ll celebrate two of the members of the so-called “Rat Pack.” This week, a close look at the life and music of “The King Of Cool” Dean Martin, and his songs like “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head.”
Harmonia | By LuAnn Johnson - May 19, 2023
On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.
Arts & Culture | By LuAnn Johnson - May 19, 2023
On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.
Inner States | By Alex Chambers - May 19, 2023
There's a meadow in eastern Kentucky where people sometimes hunt mushrooms, get married, attend a music festival. Something that's not happening? There's no prison getting built. This week, Judah Schept tells us why that prison was a close call.
Ether Game | By Chris Burrus - May 16, 2023
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Harmonia | By Chelsey Belt - May 15, 2023
For more than 600 years, the Ottoman or Turkish Empire governed much of the Mediterranean and Western Asia, leaving a strong impact on the arts, including music. This week on Harmonia, we visit this theme again, this time focusing on ways that contemporary musicians are using Turkish traditional music to inform their approaches to the music of the past.
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